Shade-bracket.



No. 880,941. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903.

' o. E. WALDORF.

SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1906.

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CHARLES EDWARD WALDORF, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

SHADE-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed August 22, 1906. Serial No. 331,629.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs EDWARD WAL- DORF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade-Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shade brackets, and to combined shade brackets and curtain pole supporters.

The primary object of the invention is to provide means for adjustably mounting brackets of this character to adapt them to support shade rollers of different lengths.

A further object of the invention is to provide means which while firmly retaining the brackets in adjusted position, will permit the brackets to be freely adjusted.

WVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a-view in side elevation of a ,combined shade bracket and curtain pole supporter. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the plane of the line 33 of Fig; 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a slightly modified combined shade bracket and curtain pole supporter. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a shade bracket. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a still further modified form of the invention, and Fig. 7 is a %action taken on the plane of the line 7 7 of Referring to the drawings by reference numerals, 2 designates a bar which is adapted to be secured to a window frame near the up per end thereof and upon which is adj ustably mounted the brackets. The ends of the bar may be offset as disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, or it may be provided with blocks 2*, as disclosed in the remaining figures of the drawings, to space the main portion thereof away from the window frame and said ends and blocks are provided with openings 3 to permit the bar to be secured in applied position by nails, screws, or any other suitable fastening means. The lower edge of the bar is rearwardly and upwardly inclined, for a purpose to be presently set forth.

4 designates a bracket, which maybe constructed to support a shade roller and ourtain pole or to only support a shade roller. The bracket may be artistically constructed edges with recesses 10.

in the manner illustrated in Figs. 1, 4 and 5 of the drawings, or it may be made plain as illustrated in Fig. 7 of the drawings. The bracket is provided with a vertical slot or opening 5 for the reception of the squared end of the spring shaft of a shade roller bracket, it being understood that a bracket provided with a bearing for the reception of the journal of a shade roller is to be used in connection with this bracket.

The brackets disclosed in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings are provided with keepers 6 for the reception of a curtain pole. The keeper 6 of the bracket disclosed in Fig. 1 of the drawings is constructed to receive curtain poles of different diameters. The bracket is provided with rearwardly extending flanges 8 and 9. The flange 8 engages over the upper edge of the bar 2, while the flange 9 engages the rearwardly inclined edge of the bar 2, to support the bracket thereon for adjustment. The flange 9 is provided in its side A spring dog 11 is mounted upon the bracket between the lower inclined edge of the bar 2 and the flange 9 and is adapted to engage the bar to secure the bracket in adjusted position thereon. The dog 11 is in the form of a leaf spring and it is transversely depressed adjacent itsends to provide stops 12 which are adapted to fit in the recesses 10 and fixedly secure the dog to the bracket. The ends of the dog are bent, as at 13, for frictional engagement with the lower inclined edge of the bar 2 to thereby retain the bracket in adjusted osition. As the dog 11 is constructe of spring metal, the bracket may be freely adjusted upon the bar 2 without moving the ends of the dog from engagement with the bar. The lower inclined edge of the bar 2 disclosed in Fig. 2 of the drawings is corrugated at 14, to permit the ends of the dog 11 to more firmly engage the bar.

In Figs. 6 and 7 of the drawings, I have illustrated a modified construction of bar and bracket. In this instance, the bar 15 is stamped up from sheet metal in a manner to rovide an outwardly and downwardly inc ined flange 16 and a vertically disposed flange 17 which is spaced from the main portion of the bar by a flange 18. The bar 15 is provided with blocks 19 to space the same from the window frame. The bracket 4 in this instance is provided with an inwardly disposed flange 20 adapted to engage the flange 17, and with a rearwardly and upwardly inclined flange 21 adapted to engage the flange 16 to adjustably mount the bracket u on the bar. The flange 21 is provided Wit diametrically opposed recesses 22 to permit the application of the dog 11 which in this instance engages the flange 16.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and mode of operation of the invention should be understood without a further extended description.

Changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages ot the invention.

Having fully described. and illustrated my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination with a bar, of a bracket provided with flanges adapted to embrace the upper and lower edges of the bar to adjustably secure the bracket thereon, one oi the flanges of the bracket being provided with recesses, and a spring dog mounted upon the bracket between the recessed flange and one edge of the bar, said spring dog being transversely depressed at points adjacent its ends to provide stops adapted to 2. The combination with a bar provided I with a corrugated edge, of a bracket provided with flanges adapted to embrace the up er and lower edges of the bar to adjustab y secure the bracket thereon, one of the flanges of the bracket being provided with recesses, and a spring dog mountedupon the bracket between the said recessed flange and the corrugated edge of the bar, said spring dog being transversely depressed at points adjacent its ends to provide stops adapted to fit in the recesses to fixedly secure the s ring dog upon the bracket, the free ends 0" the spring dog being adapted to engage the corrugated edge of the bar to secure the bracket in its adjusted position thereon.

In testimony whereof, I affiX my signature 1n presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES EDWARD WA LDORF.

Witnesses:

HENRY GREENSTEIN, CLrrUs H. KING. 

